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The Rosette tool is a quick and handy way to make your map look like an antique! It creates old-fashioned chart navigation rosettes as found on very old maps. It can be used for other special effects as well. To start, select the rosette tool .

Perimeter Points are the number of points you want around your circle. Most old maps use 16 or 32, but you can select your own number of points if you wish.

Number of vertices to skip controls the lines that are drawn. Skipping 0 means draw a line from each point to every other point. Skipping 1 means draw a line from each point to every point besides the two adjacent points (i.e. skipping one vertex in each direction). Skipping 2 means draw lines to all other points besides the four adjacent points (skipping 2 in each direction). And so on.

Crop rosette after placement lets you conform your rosette to a rectangular area by removing parts of the lines outside that rectangle.

Extend lines to crop rectangle can only be used if Crop rosette is checked, and it extends the lines of the rosette to meet the crop rectangle.

After selecting your rosette options, click OK. Then, click on the map at the center of the rosette, and drag to an edge. Release to create the rosette. If you haven't selected Crop rosette after placement, then you are done! If you are cropping, the cursor will change to a square shape. Click in the upper left corner of a cropping rectangle, drag to the lower right corner, and release the mouse button. The rosette will be clipped (and/or extended) to the rectangle you've specified. Note: The crop rectangle may be larger than the entire rosette, and in fact probably will be if you are using Extend lines to crop rectangle.

Rosettes are constructed with lines, and the lines can be edited just like other lines(depending on your selection settings, you may have to Ungroup the rosette before it can be edited).